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Who controls the world and what you should do about it

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Rabbi Alon Anava discusses deep Torah concepts and practical actions for spiritual growth and faith.

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uh minutes for people to start logging in. So till we see people logging in a month, I'm going to the United States of the great America hopefully to bring a few more Jews back home. So Zadashm I will be leaving beginning of February. I'm actually leaving right on Tishvat and then uh coming back right before Purim. So we'll obviously have a little break in uh classes and uh we'll try to squeeze in whatever we can till then. Uh hi can you hear me well? If you can, the ones who just logged in, tell me if you can hear me and see me. Shalom everyone, welcome. If you can, just let me know if you can hear me and if you can see me. Well, no echo, no jumping screens. Very good. We're going to start in a few minutes. We're just waiting for a few more people to log in and then we're going to start. I wasn't planning on doing this class live tonight. Uh but since the importance of it, I decided that it should be live and even though the recording will go on the uh YouTube right away, but uh the faster more hear the message is better. Especially that today is the last day of the Gorgian calendar year which to many I hope not are maybe planning on partying tonight. So maybe if you hear the class till the end you might think twice before you want to party tonight.

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  2. 5:56Montana. But nevertheless also the energy in the air is that after Kanuka we are victorious.
  3. 12:18with no question they have to be here in Israel. So why is that that all
  4. 18:49like I said that's maybe un you can't even fix such a situation. I'm talking about
  5. 25:20of the stuff. You don't you're not a fan of any sports. You don't look at
  6. 31:39This the families that okay, you think that you okay, you know, a little bit here
  7. 37:34and he says something very interesting. He says it's teeth are metal, metal teeth. And it's
  8. 43:52okay. But right now we have two problems. A we are subject to the regime of
  9. 50:57sure there's a good reason for that. But the reality, and I'm saying it with all
  10. 57:48that you see that our government is told. No question here. I'm talking about the Israeli

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